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ˈflat-ˈheaded, a.
(Stress equal or variable)
a. Having a flat head or top.
†b. Wearing a flat hat.
1652Ld. Digby Elvira iii. (1667) 36 A sharp-pointed Hat, (Now that you see the Gallants all Flat-headed) Appears not so ridiculous, as [etc.]. 1752Sir J. Hill Hist. Anim. 103 The larger, smooth, and flat-headed Amphisbæna. 1853Sir H. Douglas Milit. Bridges iv. 185 Flat-headed boats. 1880G. Meredith Trag. Com. 242 I have not a spark of sense to distinguish me from a flat-headed Lapp, if she refuses. 1881Freeman Subj. Venice 216 This doorway is flat-headed and has lost all mediæval character.
c. flat-headed borer U.S., a larva of any beetle of the family Buprestidæ, which bores in the bark and sapwood of trees.
1882M. Treat Injurious Insects 144 The Flat-Headed Apple-Tree Borer..may at once be recognized by it [sic] anterior ends being enormously enlarged and flattened. Ibid. 145 This Flat-headed borer is far more common with our Eastern brethren. 1926E. O. Essig Insects Western N. Amer. xxiii. 395 The larvæ [of the family Buprestidæ] are known as flat-headed borers because of the greatly enlarged and flattened thoracic segments. 1968Gloss. Terms Timber Preservation (B.S.I.) 13 Buprestidae, a family of beetles, often brightly coloured or of metallic brilliance, which bore in or under the bark or in the sapwood of dying trees or timber; called ‘flat-headed borers’ in the U.S.A. |